Stan Hollaardt - Martyred VirginsThis stirring new CD sets Gregorian, Ambrosian chant and two episodes from the life of St Agnes, creating a musical memorial to female victims of violence and abuse, raising a plea for freedom, respect and peace to be established in today's world. Poems and texts by Tehlia Lieberman and Marthe Link, read in English, punctuate the chants, and there are moving accounts by women raped in Central Africa and girls forced to enter homes for single mothers

Duke Pearson's 1967 album The Right Touch is perhaps the finest of his career and a showcase for the breadth of his talents as a pianist

The Parable of the Poet

The guitar is most often and rightly linked to Spanish music and Spanish composers

Turrentine

One Dozen Berry's was his first British LP from 1958

Tazartès' unique vocals

" and getting quite bluesy on the slow one

Guest stars include Simon Callow

and that gift for melody as well as texture which has made his Lieder ohne Worte and the elfin music to A Midsummer Night's Dream so eternally popular

In the case of this two-CD set

this collection presents three works composed in 1776 and in 1782-83

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